i suppose you have a valid point - if they can co-exist.
hopefully the nrl crowd will get into test cricket and single malts one day.
hopefully the nrl crowd will get into test cricket and single malts one day.
Bonzo, do you really think that a preference can be defined correct or incorrect? A preference is a subjective matter, not an objective one. There have been dozens of famous Philosophers who wrote on this matter, but I think that the best sythesis is expressed by the famous latin motto "De gustibus non est disputandum" (in English it sounds as "it's not allowed to dispute on different tastes and preferences"). In my opinion If you, as a classical music listener, prefer Horns, you Are welcome! But it doesn't mean that your opinion is better than mine. I once again write: I don't remeber one experience with horns which was a full satisfaction! Sorry If my opinion, as classical music listener, is different from yours, but that's all.
Bonzo, do you really think that a preference can be defined correct or incorrect? A preference is a subjective matter, not an objective one. There have been dozens of famous Philosophers who wrote on this matter, but I think that the best sythesis is expressed by the famous latin motto "De gustibus non est disputandum" (in English it sounds as "it's not allowed to dispute on different tastes and preferences"). In my opinion If you, as a classical music listener, prefer Horns, you Are welcome! But it doesn't mean that your opinion is better than mine. I once again write: I don't remeber one experience with horns which was a full satisfaction! Sorry If my opinion, as classical music listener, is different from yours, but that's all.
I've written about my experiences as long time classical music lover becuase you asked me to argue on my personal taste and my preference for planar speakers, not to make a comparison between you and me.
In summary: I cannot exclude that someday I'll listen to a Horn Loudspeaker I get mad for, but up to date I can tell you that with Horns it never happened to me!
Yes, except preference which makes blanket statements should be based on experience, hence I asked you your Horns experience before. You need live concert experience with the relevant gear experience. If not, your opinion is not based on relevant experience, that is all. I cannot, for example, given my analog gear experience, make a blanket statement that Ortofon A90 is the best cartridge because I listen to live concerts. I have compared 3 or 4 carts, which is similar in percentage terms to your horn experience. So it is not just one preference compared to another, it is one's experience as compared to another, backed by preference (which is also shaped partly by experience). From what you wrote, your horn experience is not sufficient to give credibility to your statement, and it is better for someone in your position to learn by gaining more experience.
That goes for What's better or best
The quote below is only valid if you are attempting to recreate the experience of a live concert in your home.
Bonzo, do you really think that a preference can be defined correct or incorrect? A preference is a subjective matter, not an objective one. There have been dozens of famous Philosophers who wrote on this matter, but I think that the best sythesis is expressed by the famous latin motto "De gustibus non est disputandum" (in English it sounds as "it's not allowed to dispute on different tastes and preferences"). In my opinion If you, as a classical music listener, prefer Horns, you Are welcome! But it doesn't mean that your opinion is better than mine. I once again write: I don't remeber one experience with horns which was a full satisfaction! Sorry If my opinion, as classical music listener, is different from yours, but that's all.
I've written about my experiences as long time classical music lover becuase you asked me to argue on my personal taste and my preference for planar speakers, not to make a comparison between you and me.
In summary: I cannot exclude that someday I'll listen to a Horn Loudspeaker I get mad for, but up to date I can tell you that with Horns it never happened to me!
Bonzo, I haven't introduced me as a famous journalist or an international expertise. There is no loudspeakers factory which ask my illuminate opinion before commercializing either a new horn system or an electrostat panel.
I am a simple "amateur de la musique", a music lover with my opinions which are not "universally valid Laws, Rules and Regulations".
Nevertheless how can you affirm that I haven't enough experience with horn systems? I've just written in my second post on this thread, answering your questions, that it's more than 30 years I'm listening to horn loudspeakers, in private set-up as well in Hi-End shows. My listening experience include Altec, Klipsh, JBL, Avantgarde, Acapella, Cessaro and many many more horn systems.
Mutual respect is foundamental in a Forum like this one, WBF, and even If your experience is probably more extensive than mine and your opinions most-founded than mine, as I read your posts carefully before answering you should also carefully read my posts before reaching hasty conclusions.
Having said that, friends as before! and we take as well the discussion, which concerned the best systems heard in Munich Hi End 2016.
By the way, do troubles and limitations in a room of a Hi End show concern only horn systems, in order that I cannot express a correct opinion on best sounding systems of the show? The debate is open....
I dispute the need to lay into T20 - the cricketing organisations need to be realistic about the future, they must provide the type of "entertainment" that will attract new crowds, otherwise the sport will endanger itself. So long as all forms remain fully viable, are fully vital in their core then everything will be fine - the youngbloods need their adrenalin rush, but will move onto the more interesting formats as they age ...
Teenagers hit the beer trail when young, then appreciate the subtleties of spirits when older - it's good that both are around ....
Simone, you've heard plenty of horns. You like a lot of what horns do well, but they don't ring true to you from what you're aware of from live music. De facto you haven't chosen horns. I don't even see why your statement needs to be debated.
For me, horns really do present the live experience thrill more than anything I know, Cessaro Gammas at Munich being a case in point. And that's another view. Mutual exclusivity in our views doesn't mean we can't be inclusive in agreeing to have different preferences.
Maybe "What's Best" should be renamed "What's Right"?
Then his statement should read having heard horns A, B and C I don't like them. He definitely hasn't heard a lot of them, and with the sample names he had mentioned, I would in many cases agree with his views on those horns
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